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Canadas’ $ Missing Millions
The Fifth Estate The Missing Millions
CBC 27 FEB 2021.
As journalists, one of the most critical parts of our job is to hold people to account. And that was driving our investigation "The Missing Millions."
The Fifth Estate is drilling into one of the biggest financial frauds in Canadian history - a story my colleague, producer Harvey Cashore, has been doggedly pursuing for years. We have been piecing together clues Harvey has collected to try to find money that was stolen from pensioners and everyday investors- revealing where it might have been hidden.
When Harvey reached out to the reputed ringleader of the fraud, convicted in the crime and now out on parole, and asked him for an interview... well, we didn't expect a response. But Lino Matteo sat down with us to explain how he saw the fraud unfold. It's a rare and sometimes uncomfortable conversation and a fascinating peek into the criminal mind.
Thousands of investors and pensioners lost their life savings in Canada’s biggest tax fraud between 1998 and 2000. But where did the missing millions go? The Fifth Estate and Enquête uncovered documents that reveal how a few Montreal businessmen may have used offshore tax havens to hide the money.
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